photography july 2014

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Nobuyoshi Araki Kawade Shobo Shinsha 2012 ISBN 9784309273389 Acqn 23837 Hb 14x20cm 200pp 86iils £15 Text in Japanese Small format photo-book by Araki featuring a collection of photographs from his balcony which has been included in many books over the years. Includes images spanning 30 years, several featuring his late wife Yokyo and beloved cat Chiro. A poignant set of images tinged with loneliness and loss.

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Seth Lower - The Sun Shone Glaringly The Ice Plant 2014 ISBN 9780989785907 Acqn 23323 Pb 20x24cm 80pp 39col ills £21 Seth Lower’s second photo book, The Sun Shone Glaringly, explores an observation he made upon moving to Los Angeles in 2011: "It isn’t always easy to differentiate between what is spontaneous, or real and what’s mediated. Nothing is ever one or the other." Throughout the book, while repeatedly announcing the thoughts and actions of our generic "hero," Lower combines various elements--photographs of oddly familiar filming locations; portraits of aspiring actors he contacted through Craigslist; dialogue and screenplay notations lifted from Hollywood blockbusters; and his own fabricated narratives--to suggest a story at once sordid and hilarious. Like a neo-noir film script referencing works as diverse as Mulholland Drive and Crocodile Dundee IV, Lower’s book evokes all the tropes of the Los Angeles myth to address an essential question: how do popular representations of Los Angeles affect the everyday experience of the city, and how do people negotiate the slippage between their real lives and their potential selves?

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Bull City Summer Daylight 2014 ISBN 9780988983168 Acqn 23329 Hb 28x22cm 216pp 120col ills £34.95 Bull City Summer brings together a team of artists and documentarians around a season of minor league baseball to find stories and images on the field and behind the scenes. The Durham Bulls are one of the most popular and successful minor league baseball teams in the country, with more players being sent to the Majors than any other minor league team. To diversify the documentation of the 2013 season, guest artists Alex Harris, Frank Hunter, Kate Joyce, Elizabeth Matheson, Leah Sobsey, Alec Soth, Hank Willis Thomas and Hiroshi Watanabe were invited to photograph the team in Durham. "The opportunity to photograph spring baseball in North Carolina was a no-brainer," Soth says. "The pacing of baseball arouses a kind of leisurely attentiveness that is analogous to photographic seeing. You look and look and then every once in a while, snap, you get a hit."

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Katy Grannan - The 99 Fraenkel Gallery 2014 ISBN 9781881337386 Acqn 23631 Pb 31x38cm 160pp 70ills 44col £46.50 The result of three years of work in California's Central Valley, Katy Grannan's new series The 99 features large-scale colour portraits and black-and-white photographs. Grannan's recent photographs are set in the parched landscape and forgotten towns along Highway 99, including Modesto, Fresno and Bakersfield. In her intensely vivid colour portraits, the artist works at midday when the sun is direct and the heat is unrelenting, presenting each individual, often simultaneously heroic and vulnerable, against stark, white backgrounds. In the black-and-white photographs, many of her subjects re-appear on Modesto's South 9th Street and along the banks of the Tuolumne River. Everyday rituals, small interactions and moments of beauty on the fringes of society are depicted in detail, conferring significance to what is often overlooked. This large-format, two-volume, slip cased monograph gathers this series for the first time.

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Kevin Bubriski - Images Of Nepal 1975-2011 Radius Books 2014 ISBN 9781934435724 Acqn 23900 Hb 24x28cm £35 In 1975, as a young Peace Corps volunteer, Kevin Bubriski (born 1954) was sent to Nepal's northwest Karnali Zone, the country's remotest and most economically depressed region. He walked the length and breadth of the Karnali, conducting feasibility studies for gravity-flow drinking water systems and overseeing their construction. He also photographed the villagers he lived among, producing an extraordinary series of 35mm and large-format black-and-white images. Over more than three decades, Bubriski has returned many times to Nepal, maintaining his close association with the country and its people. Images of Nepal 1975-2011 presents this remarkable body of work--photographs that document Nepal's evolution over a 36-year period from a traditional Himalayan culture to the globalized society of today. Both visual anthropology and cultural history, it is also a succinct look at one photographer's aesthetic evolution.

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#Sandy - Seen Through the iPhones of Acclaimed Photographers Daylight 2014 ISBN 9780988983175 Acqn 23902 Hb 20x20cm 96pp 94col ills £27.95 #Sandy is a book of iPhone photos of Hurricane Sandy captured by photographers Benjamin Lowy, Stephen Wilkes, Ed Kashi VII, Hank Willis Thomas, 13th Witness, Richard Renaldi, Michael Christopher Brown, Wyatt Gallery, Ruddy Roye and others. After Hurricane Sandy devastated communities in the New York City, New Jersey and Connecticut areas in October of 2012, Foley Gallery and photographer Wyatt Gallery organized an exhibition of iPhone photographs of the storm by the photographers featured here. Hundreds of people attended the one-night event, and almost 400 photographs were purchased: as a result, $19,000 was donated to Occupy Sandy and Third Wave Volunteers. All royalties from this collection, published to coincide with the Rising Waters exhibition at the Museum of The City of New York, will be entirely donated to Occupy Sandy and Sandy Storyline. Edited by Wyatt Gallery. Text by Sean Corcoran, Eddie Brannan.

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Shoji Ueda - Process And Creation Seigensha Art Publishing 2013 ISBN 9784861524110 Acqn 23106 Pb 19x26cm 224pp 225ills 75col £31 Shoji Ueda is widely known for combining surrealist compositional elements with realistic depictions in his typically black and white images. The sand dunes of his native region of Tottori often provided a backdrop for his single and group portraits. This book examines the trajectory of methods and ideas behind his work, beautifully presented in remarkable full- and half-page photographs with short commentaries, and reflects upon newly discovered materials in order to inject new life into Ueda’s oeuvre. Published to mark the centennial of his birth, it features previously unknown colour photos and describes both his collage production methods and printing techniques.

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Tuija Lindstrom - In The Beginning There Was Everything Art And Theory Publishing 2014 ISBN 9789198157307 Acqn 23576 Hb 28x20cm 144pp 100ills 30col £33.95 This book follows a previous volume of Finnish-Swedish photographer Tija Lindström’s work, ‘A Dream if ever there was One’ (2012), continuing chronologically from where the last publication left off and spanning the period of her production from the 1990s until the 2000s. It is published to coincide with an exhibition of her work at the Finnish Museum of Photography. Using both colour and black-and-white film, her diverse subjects range from portraits, sleeping nudes and women floating in a lake, to landscapes, harbour areas, plants and still lifes. Textile-like fractal patterns (a collaboration with Jesper Örtman) and a text by author Monika Fagerholm are also included.

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Gup 041: Professions Xpublishers 2014 no ISBN Acqn 23793 Pb 17x23cm 174pp 150ills 100col £7.95 The “Guide to Unique Photography” takes a varied, up-close look at contemporary photography from around the globe, featuring a selection of photographer portfolios and documentary investigations, captivating images and very personal narratives. With fingers on the pulse of cultural happenings and the ability to delve deeply in far-flung locales, the magazine offers key insights, focusing on relating stories about people. Its broad view and detailed contents cover everything from established photographers and new talents to upcoming exhibitions and recent publications.

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Thomas Ruff – Lichten ROMA Publications 2014 ISBN 9789491843174 Acqn 23820 Pb 23x31cm 144pp 60ills 57col £30 Coinciding with exhibitions in Ghent and Düsseldorf, this book comprises five photo series ranging from Thomas Ruff’s start in the late 1970s to recent work in 2014. As a conceptual photographer, his interest lies less in photographing reality, and instead focuses on portraying the realities of photography. Based in the spectrum between natural and virtual light, it engages a fundamental shift in the photographic medium over the last 30 years. In each series, Ruff subjects the medium to systematic analysis, the social, political and aesthetic aspects of image production. With contributions by Philippe Van Cauteren, Robert Fleck, Gregor Jansen, Martin Germann, and Valeria Liebermann.

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Cristina Iglesias, Thomas Struth - Constructions Of The Imagination Ivory Press 2014 ISBN 9788494146282 Acqn 23857 Pb 17x23cm 72pp 18col ills £11.50 Published with the exhibition ‘On Reality’ by sculptor Cristina Iglesias and photographer Thomas Struth, this book explores the concept of the Future and other modern myths through the two artists’ work. While Struth turns his gaze towards the empty or decommissioned spaces of technological environs and large theme parks to chase the future myth, Iglesias is likewise inspired by science fiction, as space elevators reach for the stratosphere and water metaphors materialise in tangled corridors and green glass. Both deal with liminal spaces in their works, making visible a lyrical future of suspended moments wherein our very notion of the passage of time is investigated.

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Tokyo 2020 by 9 Japanese Photographers Amana 2014 ISBN 9784907519018 Acqn 23864 Pb 21x28cm 192pp 128ills 100col £36.50 In selecting nine independent photographers who are actively producing new work and currently still in the early years of their respective careers, this volume does not attempt to show a comprehensive representation of the current state of Japanese photography, but rather focuses on how these young artists reflect the country’s present concerns and future aspirations as it looks forward to hosting the Olympic Games in 2020. Included are wildly different works by Maya Akashika, Yuji Hamada, Go Itami, Kosuke, Yoshinori Mizutani, Wataru Yamamoto, Daisuke Yokota, Kazuo Yoshida and Yumiko Utsu, plus artists’ statements, biographies and an essay by Ivan Vartanian.

photography july 2014

Documents

col ills

minor league team

collection of photographs

blackandwhite photographs

spring baseball

pacing of baseball

team of artists

grannans recent photographs